Public Leger, Volume 1, Number 14, Richmond, Wayne County, 12 June 1824 — Page 4

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Whatever the mead or Jloteery field, 7e grotto, grove, or garden yield. Of us? ful, fragrant, choice, and rare, We still select." FOR THE PUBLIC LEG EH. THE SEASONS, SPRING. The pleasant spring, When warblers sing, When melody iuritei u In every tree Is harmony, And every scene delights ut. Upon each spray The ionesters play, And tune their lays hannoniout, They chant, they sing, The forests riof Delightful and symphoniout. And now is seen, In pleasant preen, The forest deck'd with epiendor; Now from the root Bein to shoot The plants so young and tender. The pleasant spring, When warbler sing. When melodj invitt s us: May we not then m very truth, Compare the season of onr y outb, When evtry scene delights u. SUMMER. When spring serene Has quit the scene, The summer takes possession; As one is pat, The other fat Comes ou in swift succession. The Min'sibriht rays, With radiant blaze, Upon the earth now pout; Maturing fruit Upon each shoot The spring did sprout before. The sun now streams Refreshing beams, Uoth heat and liiht he's giving; Which animates And recreates All nbatsoever's living. When Sol's bright ray With radiant blaze Upon the earth do pour, Like wt en (spring gone,) Wer hatening oa Uatoan age maturo. AUTUMN. Now in its priaie, Matur'd by time Appears all vegetation; What spring did shoot, And all the fruit Of summers short duration. Both branch and vine With fruit now shine And to the earth descending, The branch and bough Of fruit trt-e now With beauteous clusters bending. WhateVr the spring To life d'd bring So beautiful and shining, In arjtumn'i tun To lore it green, It native hue declining. Whn in its prime Matured by time Appears all vegetation; So man appears When ripe in years, And near a declination. WINTER. As late we'v eea On fuiumer? creen How autumn se-tmed encrcacbing; So wintt r lat With chiliins b! t Seems hastily approicLing. As in a day So pais away ThM- scenes o tranitory; The northern breeze Undress the tree? And robs them of their glory. The wind blows ctill, The birds are itill, And silent by this reason; The forest stoops And nature droops Beneath the inclement season. As thu we've seen How winterkeen On autumn eemd encroaching; Old a?e is thus To each of us As hastily approaching. If in our prime WV improve the time And well employ our y oanger yeart; Another spnne To life rh ill brine Which no change nor, mutation fcan. , Cthmo.5th, 1824. . Qm THE FAREWELL ADDRISS OP ELISHA TYSON, OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE, To the People of OAor of the United States. It has long been in mv heart as a dutv

owe you, and now near the close of my day, the impression remains with increased force upon my mtd, to leave some advice, as a legacy to you, and as an evidence of the deep and affectionate solicitude I feel is known to some of you that I have for the last forty years, sustained many trying conflicts on your account, hut if I have shared largely in these, I have tlie consolation of believing myself to have been imperiously called upon to espouse your cause; and I now feel the reward of an approving conecience, under the reflection that I may, in some degree, have been instrumental in promoting the melioration of your condition, or in the legal recovery and securing of some of your individual rights.

In looking back through the period of

time, during which I have been engaged as your advocate, how great appears the

change, both in your condition as a people, and in the minds even of Slave Holders towards youJ. The force of justice, and the power of religious principle, have so operated upon many of those who held you in bondage, that by voluntary emancipation many thousands of you have been restored to the rank of freemen. We now behold you a numerous and an increasing people, set at liberty to share in rights and privileges, in which you are deeply interested, and upon the proper exercise or abuse of which, may depend the thraldom or enlargement of your yet enslaved brethern. You will permit me to bring into viewsome of those happy circumstances which, within the last forty years, have combined to improve your condition, and which, I conceive, are calculated to produce further results of the utmost importance to you. You now have tl.e privilege of holding, and many of you are in actual possession of considerable property others of you are liberally rewarded for their industry, and to all of you who have been emancipated, the means are offered of rendering yourselves comfortable in the world, and of diffusing blessings to your offspring as well as to those of your colour generally. Under these favours, for which you stand immediately indebted to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, both civil and religious improvements are advancing amongst you. Your friends rejoice in perceiving the number of schools established and encouraged for the education of your children; because they view in the cultivation of the human mind, not only a preparation for freedom, but also a qualification for increased usefulness to civil society at large,

believing in the important truth, that in proportion as barbarism and ignorance amongstyou shall yield to light and knowledge, civilization and refinement will render you more valuable both to yourselves and to the community in which you live. They also observe with deep interest, the worship-houses erected for your accommodation, in many places, in which you are permitted undisturbedly to assemble, for

the public acknowledgement due the God and Father of us all. In adverting to this momentuous consideration, I feel an ardent desire, that you may entertain just conceptions, both of the importance ol religion, and of tlie nature and obligations of divine worship. The most solemn act in which the mind of man can possibly be engaged, is the worship of God. The aid of words is not necessary to communicate our wants, neither is the utmost exertion of powers of the human voice capable of reaching the Divine ear, with any increased certainty. True worship is the adoration of the soul; and when clothed in vocal expressions it ought to be w ith reverence and awe, and under a demeanor, marked by that decency and order, which tlie knowledge of a God of order, necessarily inspires. In communicating these sentiments, I feel , the warmest solicitude, that your religious asscmblies,under whatever name you may meet, may be acceptable to the Divine Being; and that they may be so conducted, as to claim the respect, even of your enemies. I will now call your attention to the importance of the relation in which such of

you as are at liberty stand, to those who are in bondage. 1 desire to convince you, that your conduct whether good or evil, will hav e a powerful influence in loosening, or in rivetting the chains of such of your oppressed fellow descendants of Africa as may yet remain in slavery. How lamentable is the reflection that the misconduct of some amongst you, who are enjoying the rights and privileges of freemen, should afford ground for the assertion that you are unworthy of liberty, and that this abuse of your privileges should furnish a pretext for perpetuating the sufferings and oppressions of your brethren who remain under St 11 the galling yoke of bondage! I assuredly believe, that not only those who are at liberty, but that those also who arc enslaved, may become the instrumcnts'of alleviating the sufferings of one another, or, on the contra ry, of aggravating and continuing those sufferings, by prejudicing the minds, and rendering callous, the feelings of Slave Holders against you. Under this view, it is the earnest desire of my heart,not oidy that the free people of colour, but also that such as are in slavery, may so conduct themselves, as to make strong and powerful appeals to--the humanity and justice of those who hold them in bondage. Vteligion, under its true and vital obligations, would lead those who arc at liberty, to observe integrity and uprightness of conduct. It would make you examples in industry, in sobriety, and in honesty. It would render you happy in yourselves, and it would secure to you the confidence and favours of the white people, by proving to them that you were not unworthy of the rights you enjoyed. The same would likewise be its conspicuous and important benefits to those yet held in bondage; it wculd lead these to be faithful servants, to fill up

the duties laid upon them, however hard their allotment, with a due regard even to the interests of their masters; & instead of indulgingthe malignant passions of depraved human nature, which go to render evil for evil, their souls would be directed in prayer to God, that the eyes of their oppressors might be opened to see, and their hearts softened to feel for the wrongs and sufferings of the decendants of Africa. They would confide in the overruling and superintending Providence of Almighty of him who heard the cries and brought out of Egyptian bondage, a numerous people formerly, long subjected to the cruelty of hard task masters, whomade them serve with rigour' and embittered their lives w ith heavy oppression. Having thus expressed myselfin relation to those who are now at liberty, and also

! to those who are yet in slavery in the united States generally, but very especially to you of the middle states and of Baltimore, the city of my residence,in behalf of whom, my agency has on many occasions been more immediately exerted, I feel myself impelled under the deepest concern for your welfare, and from a sense of the duty which I believe I owe to you to sayyet further, that my mind is impressed with a clear and full conviction that the Arm of Omnipotence is stretched cut for your enlargement that he is manifesting his power by his influences upon the hearts of our Rulers, and that he is enlightening the minds and mitigating the feelings of many of those who yet hold you in bondage. Many are the advocates who are raised up even in the councils of nations, to plead your cause, both in reference to the foreign trade, and to domestic slavery. The wrongs and the cries of Africa and her decendants have not only reached the ears of the infinite Jehovah, hut hav e touched the hearts ofthousands with feelings of philanthropy, under w hich they are becoming instruments in the divine hand in loosening your chains. And whilst I view with jovous anticipation, the great and interesting certainty, that slavery in our country is drawing to an end, and that thousands and tens of thousands of the descendants of Africa are becoming re stored to the rights of freemen, my heart

is animated with the warmest solicitude that the great purposes of the Almighty in relation to you as a people, may not he retarded by any indiscretions on your part. 1 believe it to be the design of infinite Wisdom, not only to furnish in your case a proof, of the- very important truth, that slavery, being in itself inherently w rong, cannot always exist, but that it is also his sacred determination to manifest his omnipotence by bringing good out ot this evil. In accordance with these views, I religiously believe, that the day will come in which the people of colour in these United States, emerging fiom a state of slavery, will he made instrumental in diffusing both civil and rcligous benefits, to the dark and benighted re gions of Africa. Under considerations like thote, howgreat is the responsibility which rests upon vou,and how serious the duties you owe to God, to yourselves individually, and to one another! Having said thus much in discharge of the solemn and last debt, which I have believed I owe to you, I now close this my farewell address: in doing which, the effusions of my heart reach forth to the God of all grace, earnestly desiring that under the dispensations of his Providence, the light of his truth may he your light that

it mav lead, guide and direct vou, in everv difficulty and under every extremity, and that he may finally give you an inheritance in the regions of eternal life, with "that great multitude which no man can number, of all nations, and kindreds, and tongues, and people' ELISHA TYSON. Baltimore, 2mo. 1324.

From the Cincinnati Lilerari Gasftte Account of a new Sect in India. ;I went (says a missionary) with 2 gentlemen from Futtehgour, on the invitation of the principal persons of the Saud sect, to witness an assemblage of them, for the purpose of religious worship, in Ferrukahad. The meeting took place within the court-yard of a large house. We were received with great attention, & chairs were placed for us in front of the hall. After some time, when the place was full of people, the worship commenced. It consisted solely in the chantingof a hymn, this being the only mode of public worship used by the Sands. At subsequent periods I made particular inquiries relative to the opinions and practic es of Ibis sect, and was frequently visited by Bhuwanec Dos, one of its leaders, who gave me the following account: 44 About ICO years ago, Becrbhan,a provincial of Dehli, received a miraculous communication from Ouda Dos, teaching him the particulars of the religion now professed by the Sauds. Ouda, at the same

time, gave to Bcerbhan remarks b . he might know him on his re-apn' !N namely, that whatever he foretold?' happen; that no shadow should. from his figure ; that he would tell thoughts; that he would be susper tween heaven and earth; that he ' bring the dead to life. Bliuwar,presented me with a copy of the JV or religious book of the Sauds, wru kind of verse; and he fully exphi; me the leading points of their reli' They abhor and utterly re ject all 1? idolatry; and the Ganges is coasi them with no greater veneration tj v Christians, although the converts are -chiefly, if not entirely, from atsor! Hindoos, whom they resemble in outV appearance. Their name for God is c, gour; and Saud, the appellation ofsect, means servant of God. Tle Deists, and their form of worship simple. They resemble the Quaker their customs, in a remarkable deret Ornaments and gay apparel of even are strictly prohibited; their dressY ways white. They never make aiiv o isance. They will not take an caii, . are exempted in a court of justice; ? assevertion, like that of the Quaker. ing considered equivalent. Thev rr to abstain from all luxuries, such as U co, paun, opium and wine, Thev have nauchts or dancing. All att; manor beast is forbidden; but, b , defence, resistance is allowable. I.d, is strongly enjoined. The Sau J, . Quakers, take great care of their rxr; infirm people. To receive assistant:'; persor.s who are not of the pui.t er :;. would be reckoned disgraceful, ai aider the offender liable to exo n n.y; tion. All parade of worship is f ri i Secret p raver is recommended should he unostentatious; and the cumulation of the tongue is a principal d, The chie f seats of the Saud? are Lu Agra, J a pour, and Ferruk-abad. A:.; nual meeting takes place at one cr c

of these cities. Thev are an oidenV well-conducted people; they are tU engaged in trade. Bhuwanee Dt; r anxious to become acquainted v i:.. . Christian religion, and I gave l.iin copies of the Testament in Persia. . Iliniioostanee. These he con.n.ui.u: to his friend-, and he expressed his a ... bationof their interesting content;." From tlie National C:i: The disinterested conduct cf Mrs. F: a member of the society of Ff.ifm ameliorating the condition of thl.;. . prisons, has called forth the wain.c-st : ings of respect and admiration, l icm cbenevolent heart. Her devoteJi ess liberality, and her chribtain simplici:;. effecting the object for which she I; zealously labored, it would be suj iwere sufficient assurances of the ( of her intentions. It seenis, howeur.; the JJigh Church party have kAxJ: benefit of moral and religou instruct -v. the prisoners of Chelmsford jail, i r Mrs. Fry does not believe in the lability of the thirty nine artic It s. The following extract is submitted the candid part of the christain ctn.na;-'' without comment. "At Chelmsford Sessions the Mapstr--discussed the question whether scrm : spectable females of that ton n, ii?r:of Mrs. Frv, should be allowed tobi prisoners in the jail occasionally: an; coming to a vote, thev rescirded hy a r jority of twenty-five to seven, the pirn sion which had been given by three ct'five visiting magistrates. The pri-o? was said, was a church of England o'lishment,and it might be dangerous t ' i mit Sectarians to give instructions to 1 prisoners! Besides, prayers from the igy were read every morning by the t lain as directed by the late act, would he extremly indelicate, and ! to his feelings as a minister and a man, to permit others to interfere with' moral improvement of the prisoners.

Fni'iT Trees. A corrcspordcr.t ri American Farmer,speaks in decided tf against the common practice el vdwashing fruit trees. He thinks it detrimental to their growth, ai d t persevered in, it w ill prove tatiil trees. He thinks that cleanlir t ss i- " scntial to the health of trees, as ai in and he recommends that they K Hr ' in the months of February and M' 1' washed with soap-suds, in which ta-' has been steeped. Mechanics. An institutionor tf? mechanics the scientific principle;1 several trades, has been establish "( don, under the guaidiance of Dr. I",1 founder of the first institution of h;' at Glasgow. Already similar plar float at LivcrpooI,Manchetc r,Leec? tol,aud Birmingham. ChriiL